This is a presentation showing the power of art, social media, crowd funding and activism in relation to forming health policy.

1. When Art is no longer a
Pretty
Picture:
Art for
Advocacy
A patient activist perspective by Regina Holliday

2. Art.
That’s for kids, right?

3. Picture Books
Bedtime Stories
Family Television
Drawing, Painting
Dancing, Singing
Children immerse themselves in art.
They live art.
They learn from art,
and do not separate it from daily life.

4. Art can be “safe.”
It can provide therapy for injured souls.
It can be contained
within waiting rooms and rolling art carts.
Art can be pinned down upon a sheet of construction paper
Static,
Still
A waxwork of emotion.
It can be a moment of process with no intent.
Or it can be more.

5. Sometimes art is a cry for help,
A plea for change,
Or simply the statement:
“I was here.”
Regina, the child

6. Art can make clinical spaces “pretty.”
But as any child can tell you,
it can be dangerous to enter candy houses.
Art can be used to
mask the rotten
apple or it can be used
to
reveal it.

7. Healthcare is not Rainbows and Butterflies.

8. Are you ready to jump?
Are you ready to change the way you think about art within medicine?

9. Writing
on the
Wall.
(or what one widow can
do with a borrowed ladder
an available wall and
$500.00 in paint.)

10. They can Write it on a Wall.
How can an outsider artist,
send a message to us all?

11. Painting Advocacy meets
Social Media
Street art is truly the first global art movement fueled by the Internet.
–Marc and Sara Schiller, Wooster Collective, 2010

12. “The aim of art is to represent not the
outward appearance of things, but their
inward significance.” ~Aristotle

13. This is the painting 73 cents.
This is the vital patient story, the social history , the sacred heart of Fred’s
ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD.
And this painting, like the internet,
advocates 24 hours a day
and you cannot tell a wall to shut up.

14. “Shouldn’t Art stick to what it does best-
the delivery of pleasure?
And forget about being a Paintbrush warrior.
Or, is it when the bombs are dropping we find out what art is really for?”
-Power of Art by Simon Schama

15. Art Advocacy and its affect on health policy
In the institution or in governance

16. “During this hospital stay, how often was your pain well controlled?”
Art can provide a face to cold clinical statistics.

17. Art can compare hard data to soft data
and apples to apples.

18. Prior legislation can inspire the art
that explains the future of health.
ADA
Civil Rights
Orphan Drug Act
HIPAA

19. Meaningful Use in a
Diner…..

20. Why not paint about the need
for better hygiene practices?

21. Sometimes “blowing a gasket” leads to the best kind of collaborative disruption.
Crowd-funding exists to make the impossible possible….

22. Patient Scholarships
You can crowd fund Art Advocacy

23. Why can’t we ask Hallmark
to make hospice cards?
Would that help us talk
about end of life?

24. You can use images
to inspire
better communication

25. #HospiceCards
Become a reality

26. Join a Walking Wall of Patient Stories
The Walking Gallery

27. Patients spend much of their
days living in
Negative space.
Instead of being the subject
of attention
We are often the space around
The image of medicine.
The back ground
The prop

28. Street Art:
The more stickers that are out there the more important it seems.
The more important it seems, the more people want to know what it is.
The more they ask they ask each other.
It gains real power from perceived power.-Shepard Fairey

30. We can redefine expectations of the role of art in medicine
at every hospital, clinic and conference.

31. Let Patients Speak
We must encourage every committee,
conference and hospital board,
to actively recruit and include patients
in every aspect of the care process from
design to implementation to resolution.
Invite patients and you will include artists,
poets and writers in creating health policy.

32. Are you ready ? Art is what you make of it…
You can choose the role of art in medicine.
Choose wisely.
@ReginaHolliday